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Catalogue Six Autumn 2005 Irish Art - Irish Artists & Book Illustrators

700. Harvey, John. Dublin. A Study in Environment. London. Batsford. 1949. First. pp.116. Color frontis. Prof. illustrated. Attractive Malton illustrated D.J. of Capel Street. V.G. €40.

701. Hardy, Philip D. A Wreath from the Emerald Isle. Dublin. C.1840. pp.172. Vignette illustration. New marbled boards and E.P.s Moroc. label. Frontis. G. €95.

702. Haverty, Martin. The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern. Dublin. James Duffy 1860. First. Royal 8vo. pp.774. Attractive initials on each chapter heading. Fine green quarter calf with marbled boards. Morocco label. Fine copy. €150.

Signed Copy.

703. Hayward, Richard. This is Ireland, Leinster and the city of Dublin. London. Arthur Barker Ltd. 1949. First. pp.256. Prof. illustrated. Signed “Kathleen Deckies Book. Richard Hayward September 1952” Torn D.J. €75.

705. Healy, Most Rev. Dr. The Life and Writings of St. Patrick. With large folding map showing St. Patrick’s Missionary Journeys through Ireland and with appendices, etc. Dublin. Gill 1905. pp.754. V.G. in org. cloth. €75.

706. Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney’s Flight. Based on the revised text of “Sweeney Astray”. London. Faber and Faber. 1992. First. 4to. pp.117. Photographs by Rachel Giese.
Mint in D.J. €110.

708. Heaney, Seamus. The Spirit Level. London. Faber 1996. First. pp.70. Mint in D.J. €95.

710. Heaney, Seamus. Preoccupations. Selected Prose 1968-1978. London. Faber & Faber 1980. First. pp.224. D.J. with slight stain in org. blue Cloth, internally V.G. €95.

711. Heaney, Seamus and Ted Hughes (edited by)The School Bag. London. Faber & Faber. 1997. First thus. pp.590. Mint in pictorial D.J. €75.

713. Hearn, Lafcadio. Buddha. Studien Aus Japan. Frankfurt am Main. 1921. pp.268. Org. gilt decorative cream cloth. Illustrated. German text. V.G. €95.

714. Hearn, Lafcadio. Kwaidan. Stories and Studies of Strange Things. London. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1905. First. pp.240. 2 drawings by Japanese Artist Keichú Takénouche. English text with Japanese headings in red print at top margins of each page, org. green gilt cloth. Lovely copy of rare Hearn work. €250.

Provenance Kleinman Library, Ballyferiter.

716. Hennessy, William. The annals of Loch Cé. A Chronicle of Irish Affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited, with a translation by William M. Hennessy. Dublin. Stationery Office. 1939. 2 litho frontis of Trinity College manuscript. Org. red cloth, titles in gilt on spines. Scarce reprint of Hennessy’s famous work first published. 1871. With B.P.s of Ralph M. Kleinman, Ballyferiter, Co. Kerry. V.G. €350.

Signed Copy.

718. Gwilym Datydd. A.P. Selected Poems translated by Nigel Heseltine with a preface by Frank O’Connor. Cuala Press. 1944. Limited Edition (280). pp.46. Quarter linen boards with tissue wrapper. B.P. Unopened. Contemporary news clippings. Fine. Signed “Aylwin from Nigel 11/44” €295.

719. Hill, Edwin Darley. The Northern Banking Company Limited. An Historical sketch, commemorating a century of banking 1824-1924. Numerous cold. and b.w. plates. Belfast, Linenhall Press, 1925. 4to. Fine. €185.

721. “Hi-Regan” How and Where to Fish in Ireland. London. Sampson 1892. pp.174 + 39 pages of ads. Illustrated. Org. red & green cloth, bottom of spine frayed. €50.

722. Historical Manuscripts Commission. The Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, The Earl of Fingall, The Corporation of Waterford & Galway. London. H.M.S.O. 1885. Royal 8vo. pp.566. Ex. Lib. Org. wraps – spine frayed, tight copy. €135.

723. Historical Manuscripts Commission. Report on Franciscan Manuscripts Preserved at the Convent, Merchant’s Quay, Dublin. Dublin. Stationery Office. 1906. pp.306. Royal 8vo. Wraps. Ex. Lib. Tight. V.G. €135.

724. Historical Manuscripts Commission. The Manuscripts of Charles Haliday Esq. of Dublin. Acts of the Privy Council in Ireland 1556-1571. London. H.M.S.O. 1897. pp.339. Royal 8 vo. Ex. Lib. Wraps. Tight copy. €135.

725. Hogan, Edmund. The Description of Ireland and the State thereof as it is at this present in Anno 1598 now for the first time published from a Manuscript preserved in Clongowes-Wood College, Dublin. M.H. Gill & Son. 1878. First. pp.382. 4to. Uncut. fine green half calf, marbled boards (recent) Ex. Mungret Library. V.G. €450.

726. Horgan, John. Sean Lemass. The Enigmatic Patriot. Dublin. Gill & Macmillan. 1997. First. pp.424. Illustrated. Mint in D.J. €30.

727. Hotten, John Camden. The Original Lists of Persons of quality emigrants etc. who went from Great Britain to the American plantations 1600-1700. Baltimore. Genealogical Publishing Co. 1986. pp.580. Org. green cloth. V.G. €65.

728. Houghton, Rev. W. British Fresh water Fish. London. Gibbings & Co. 1900. Small 4to. pp.231. A.E.G. Numerous tinted plates. Org. green cloth with gilt spine. V.G. €150.

729. Hyde, Douglas. A Literary History of Ireland. London. Benn. 1967. Intro. by Brian Ó Cuiv. pp.654. Fine in D.J. €30.

730. Hyde (H. Montgomery) Carson. The Life of Edward Carson, Lord Carson of Duncairn. London. Heinemann, 1953. pp.515. Illus. First edit. V.G. €20.

731. Inwood, William. Tables for the purchasing of Estates. London. John Weale, 1850. pp.156. Half calf, marbled boards. Lissadell B.P. V.G. €135.

732. Irish Art.

During the past 10 years Christies and Sothebys have held major Irish Art Sales in the month of May, many of which produced record prices. They are now the definitive barometer in relation to the health of the Irish Art market. The following catalogues relating to some of these sales are now useful in tracing the rapidly increasing prices. Catalogues are 4to. in original stiff wraps, prof. illustrated in colour and average about 200 pages :-

(1) Sothebys the Irish Sale 16/5/1996

(2) do do 2/5/1997

(3) do do 21/5/1998

(4) do do 21/5/1999

(5) do do 16/5/2002

(6) Christies do 22/5/1998

(7) do do 19/5/2000

(8) do do 12/5/2005

(9) Sothebys do 13/5/2005 €35 each.

733. Irish Compendium. The Irish Compendium. Containing the descent, Marriage, issue titles, posts & seats of all the Nobility in Ireland with their Arms. Supporters, Mottos and Parliament Robes, exactly engraved on copper plates. London. J. Knapton. 1756. Thick 12 mo. Full calf, mac. Label. pp.562. 85 fine copper-plates. €495.

From the Library of Lord Cullen of Ashbourne whose family Coat of Arms is illustrated on Plate No. 38. Library Brand of Lord Cullen. I have 4 further volumes similar to above in relation to British Nobility which may be of interest to purchaser of above.

734. Irish Heritage Series. We have a large selection of Irish Heritage Booklets published by Eason & Company, Dublin in stiff wraps & illustrated in color and B/W. Many of these are out of print and difficult to source. Our prices vary from €10 to €30 and your enquiries for particular issues are welcome.

735. Ireland. The Parliamentry Register or History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons in Ireland. Dublin. James & Wm.Porter. 1782. Cnp. Calf, gilt spine with top compartment frayed. Crimson moroc. labels, rubbed. B.P. €130.

736. Irish. The Irish Pearl. A Tale of the Time of Queen Anne. 1855. Second Edition. pp.96. Frontis plate – Gougane Barra, Co. Cork. Engraved T.P. Org. green cloth with gilt title in a decorative floral surrounding. Unusual and attractive. V.G. €150.

737. Irvine, John. The Flowering Branch. Belfast. Derrick McCord. An Anthology of Irish Poetry. Past & Present selected & arranged by John Irvine 1945. First small 8vo. pp.111. Inscribed on half title “With the compliments of John Irvine December 1944” Lovely mint pictorial D.J. An Author’s advance preview copy. Almost mint. €125.

738. Irvine, John. A Treasury of Irish Saints. A book of poems. Dublin. The Dolmen Press 1964. First. Large 8vo. pp.37. Illustrated by Ruth Brandt. Pictorial D.J. Glassine wrapped. V.G. €80.

739. Jackson, Robert Wyse. Irish Silver. Cork. Mercier Press. 1972. First. pp.85. Ilustrated. Fine in pictorial D.J. One of the scarcest books on Irish silver. €175.

740. Jacob, William. Tracts relating to the Corn Trade and Corn Laws including the second report ordered to be printed by the two Houses of Parliament. London. Murray 1828. ½ calf. Fine binding. B.P. pp.419. Rare. €320.

742. Jenkins, Brian. Sir William Gregory of Coole – the Biography of an Anglo-Irishman. Gerrards Cross. Colin Smythe. 1986. Royal 8vo. pp.339. Mint in D.J. €45.

743. Johnstons Travelling Map of Ireland. Edinburgh. N. & A.K. Johnston. C.1835. Large (64 x 52 cms) coloured folding map on linen, folding into its backing cloth cover, gilt and illustrated with ship train & travel baggage. V.G. €130.

James Joyce Section.

A quality Irish Library lacking Joyce first editions is a bit like Hamlet without the Prince. The following section provides an opportunity to acquire some scarce Joyce material without disposing of the family silver.

745. Joyce, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle. Criterion Miscellany No. 15. London. Faber. 1930. First. pp.32. Untrimmed titled wrappers and loosely inserted is an advertising Joyce leaflet including the rare ad for Joyce’s own reading of the last 4 pages of Anna Livia Plurabelle on a 12 inch double-sided gramaphone record dd(price two guineas). Original wrappers. €295.

746. Joyce, James. Giacamo Joyce. With an introduction and notes by Richard Ellmann. With the text of the notebook and four fullscale facsimiles of the Notebook pages. New York. Viking Press. 1968. Limited to one printing and will not be reprinted in this form. B.P. Almost mint copy in quarter cloth in slipcase. €160.

747. Joyce, James. In Memorian James Joyce. A Vision of World Language. By Hugh MacDiarmid. Decorations by J.D. Fergusson. Glasgow. William MacLellan 1956. 4to. pp.148. Mint in D.J. €150.

748. Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. London. Faber & Faber 1939. First. pp.628. Original red cloth with torn D.J. Untrimmed. G. €1,300.

749. Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. New York. The Viking Press 1939. First. Large 8vo. pp.628. Original black cloth with title in gilt on co on May 4th, 1939. Fine copy of Joyce’s last book. €995.

750. Joyce, James. Finnegan’s Wake. London. Faber & Faber. 1939. First. pp.628. Original red cloth. Gilt spines untrimmed. Very fine copy. Contemporary (1939) Illustrated news clippings about this book loosely inserted. €995.

751. Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. London. Faber & Faber 1946. Second edit. pp.628 + 28 pages errata . Org. red cloth. V.G. €125.

752. Joyce, James. Transition – Number 26. 1937. New York. Includes 18 pages of Work in Progress (Finnegans Wake) two years before its publication in book form. This issue of 220 pages included articles by Kafka, Eugene Jolas and Stuart Gilbert. Org. décor wraps. G. €325.

753. Joyce, James. Poems Penyeach. Shakspeare and Company, Paris. 1927. First Edition. 16mo. Errata slip tipped in at end. Original pale green paper covered boards. pp.16. Printed in blue. Rare. V.G.€495.

First French printed English Edition.

755. Joyce, James. Ulysses. London, for the Egoist Press by John Rodker. Paris. 1922. Small 4to. First English Edition (printed in France) Limited edition (2,000) pp. (XV) 732. Cream cloth with original blue wraps bound in. Rare. €4,250.

757. Joyce, James. Ulysses. Paris. Shakespeare and Company. 1925. 6th Printing. pp.736. Small 4to. Beautifully bound in recent blue half calf, blue marbled boards with red morocco label on spine. Original light blue wrappers bound in at rear. Lovely copy. €995.

758. Joyce, James. Ulysses. Paris. Shakespeare and Company. 1926. 8th Printing. pp.735. Small 4to. Beautifully bound in recent blue half calf. blue marbled boards with morocco label on spine. Fine copy. €925.

759. Joyce, James. Ulysses. Paris. Shakespeare & Company, 1928. 10th Printing. pp.735. Fine binding. Recent blue half calf, marbled boards incorporating original blue wraps. V.G. €900.

760. Joyce, James. Exiles. A Play in Three Acts. London. Grant Richards Ltd. 1918. First Edition. pp.158. Quarter cloth boards, printed paper title label on cover and spine. Fine copy and very scarce in the First Edition. €895.

761. Joyce, James. Exiles – A Play in three Acts. London. The Egoist Press. 1921. Second Edition. pp.154. Org. dark green cloth. One of 500 copies bound in dark green cloth. Scarce.
G. €425.

762. Joyce, James. Two Tales of Shem and Shaun. Fragments from Work in Progress. London. Faber. 1932. First. Fine copy in pale green boards D.J. in glassine wrap with small loss to spine. €230.

763. Joyce, James. Stephen Hero. Part of the first draft of “A Portrait of the Artist as a young man”. Edited with an introduction by Theodore Spencer. London. Jonathan Cape 1944. First. pp.210. Pictorial D.J. in glassine cover. V.G. €250.

764. Joyce, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from work in progress. London. Faber & Faber. 1931. First trade edition (No. 26 of the criterion miscellany) very interesting newspaper clipping attached dated the 5th July, 1931 (from Sunday Graphic) describing the wedding on the previous day of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle at Kensington Register Office. Mint in stiff green wrappers printed in red. €225.

765. Joyce. Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of work in progress by Samuel Beckett. Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Victor Llona, Robert McAlmo,n. Thomas McGreevy, Eliot Paul, John Rodker, Robert Sage, Wiliam Carols Williams with letters of protest by G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon. London. Faber (1929). First Edition –

English issue. Original pale blue cloth. pp.194+2. V.G. €375.

Includes brief quotations from Joyce’s work in progress and the letters of Protest are reputed to be by him.

766. Joyce, James. Ulysses. A facsimile of the Manuscript. London. Faber & Faber in association with the Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation. Philadelphia. 1975. First. Folio. 3 volumes. Volume 1 – The Manuscript and first Printings Compared - Annotated by Clive Driver. pp.730. Blue printed cloth. Volumes 2 and 3 a facsimile of the Manuscript ;with a critical introduction by Harry Levin, and a bibliographical preface by Clive Driver. pp.(2) 345, (3)pp.438. Important notice slip loosely inserted . Blue printed cloth. Volume 2 & 3 consist of photographic reproductions of the Manuscript. B.P.s. 3 vols. in original white slip case. This is a scarce and indispensable record of Joyce’s masterpiece. €825.

769. Joyce, Stuart Gilbert. Letters of James Joyce. London. Faber & Faber. 1957. First. pp.437. Org. cloth. V.G. €95.

770. Joyce. S.L. Goldberg. Joyce. Edinburgh. Oliver & Boyd. 1962. First. pp.120. Stiff pictorial wraps. V.G. €55.

771. (a) Field, Saul & Morton Levitt. Bloomsday. An Interpretation of James Joyce’s Ulysses. London. Bodley Head 1972. Folio. pp.120. Finely illustrated in colour. Mint in D.J. €395.

772. Joyce, P.W. The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation. London. Longmans, Green & Co. 1908. Second Edition. pp.175. Frontis – Plan of Tara. Org. green cloth with gilt title. V.G.€75.

773. Joyce, P.W. Ballads of Irish Chivalry. Dublin. Talbot Press. n.d. pp.212.
Org. green cloth. G. €35.

774. Joyce, P.W. Atlas & Geography of Ireland. A Description of the Country, and of the Several Counties. Dublin. M.H. Gill & Son. C. 1880. pp.81. Large 4to. 33 fine coloured maps by John Bartholomew. Original green Cloth, gilt title. €125.

776. Kane, Robert. The Industrial Resources of Ireland. Dublin. Hodges & Smith. 1844. First. pp.417. Cntpy. Half calf, marbled boards. V.G. €185.

777. Kavanagh, Patrick. Collected Pruse. London. MacGibbon and Kee Ltd. 1967. First. pp.288. Blue cloth. Ex. Lib. V.G. €250.

778. Kavanagh, Patrick. The Green Fool. London. Martin, Brian & O’Keeffe, 1971. Second Edition. pp.350. Mint in glassine covered D.J. €150.

779. Kavanagh. Alan Warner. Clay in the Word. Patrick Kavanagh 1904-1967. Dublin. Dolmen Press. 1973. pp.144. Stiff wraps. Fine in dec. D.J. €65.

780. Kavanagh, Patrick. Come Dance with Kitty Stobling and other poems. London. Longmans 1960. First. pp.44. Cntpy. News clippings and Poetry Book Society Bulletin June 1960 (pp.2) with most of page one written by Kavanagh about his life and about the above book. Mint in glassine cover over original printed buckram. Including scarce ephemera. €225.

781. Kavanagh, Patrick. West 47. Galway Arts Centre 2000. 4to. pp.36 Limited Edition (400) First appearance in print of 2 Kavanagh poems “Ungrateful Singer” & another untitled poem rejected by Enroy in 1959. Mint in wrappers. €15.

782. Kee, Robert. Ireland – A History. London. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1981. 4to. pp.256. Illus. V.G. €35.

783. Kennelly, Brendan. Euripides’ the Trojan Women. A new version. Newcastle. Bloodaxe Books Ltd. pp.80. Mint in D.J. €40.

784. Kenny, Rev. M. Kenny S.J. Glankeen of Borrisoleigh. Dublin. Duffy. 1944. First. pp.114. Fine copy in pictorial D.J. Scarce local History of a Tipperary Parish. €110.

Signed Copy.

785. Kiernan, T.J. The Irish Exiles in Australia. Dublin. Clonmore & Reynols. 1954. First. pp.196. Inscribed on T.P. “For the O’Hara family with Kindest wishes from the writer T.J. Kiernan, January 1955”. Irish School Studies blind stamp on T.P. G.€65.

Kiernan was Ireland’s first ambassador to Australia and was married to the Irish Ballad Singer Delia Murphy.

786. Killarney. Tourist’s Guide to the Lakes of Killarney. London. T. Nelson & Sons. C.1886. Oblong. 8vo. pp.86. 23 fine coloured lithographs and other illustrations.
Org. pictorial cloth. €95.

787. Killarney. Pictures in colour of the Lakes of Killarney and South of Ireland. Dublin. W. Lawrence – Photographer. 4to. C.1908. pp.48 plus 7 pages of ads. 48 coloured full page pictures of the Lakes of Killarney, Counties Kerry, Cork and the South of Ireland. Org. pictorial cloth. G.€95.

788. Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaelogical Society. Dublin. John O’Daly. 1855-1876. Various Publishers. 10 volumes 1852-1876. The rare early volumes (excluding Vol. 1 1849) of the Kilkenny Archaelogical Society, later Journal of the lithographs & some coloured plates. Bound in 10 attractive half cnpy. calf and marbled boards. Appropriately bound by McCann- Bookbinder, Kilkenny with his label on each book. V.G. €1,900.

789. Kinsella, Thomas. Faeth Fiadha the Beast Plate of Saint Patrick. Translated by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish. Dublin. Dolmen Press. 1961. pp.8. Frontis. Org. wraps. V.G. €20.

790. Kinsella, Thomas. Fifteen Dead. Dublin. Dolmen in asociation with Oxford Uni. Press. 1979. Pp.75. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Signed by the Author on E.P. V. fine. €95.

791. Kinsella, Thomas. Peppercanister Poems 1972 – 1978. Dublin. Dolmen for Wake Forest Uni. Press. 1979. First thus. pp.159. Fine copy in glassinecovered D.J. Inscribed on E.P. “Margi with very many thanks ThomasKinsella”. V.G. €295.

792. Kinsella, Thomas. Finistere. Dublin. Dolmen. 1972. 4to. First. Beautiful book, designed by Liam Miller, is set in Pilgrim ty and illustrations by Hugh Kearns & Liam Miller derive from carvings at Newgrange, Knowth, Co. Meath and Carndonagh, Co. Donegal. L.P. No. 205 (Ex. 250). Mint in original green cloth with ogham design on cover in original glassine cover. Signed by Author on limitation page. €495.

793. Kirby, Sheelah. The Yeats Country. A guide to places in the West of Ireland associated with the life and writings of William Butler Yeats. Dublin. Dolmen Press, 1962. First. pp.47. Drawings & maps by Ruth Brandt. Fine in D. J. €75.

Irish Architectural Gem.

794. Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin - Nicholas K Robinson Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland. Dublin. The Irish Architectural Archive and the Irish Georgian Society. 1989. First. Folio. pp.161. Beautifully illustrated in B/W. Org. stiff pictorial wraps. V.G. €135.


Superb record of hundreds of great Irish Houses most of which are now demolished or in ruins.

795. Knowles Rev. J.A. Fetherd, Its Abbey etc. Dublin. James Duffy, 1903.Illustrated. Dec. gilt green cloth. pp.167. Fine local history of this attractive South Tipperary Town
and its Historic Abbey. Scarce. €120.

796. Knox. S.J. Ireland's debt to the Huguenots. Dublin. A.P.C.K. 1959. First. pp.86. Prof. illustrated. Mint in pictorial stiff wraps. €55.

797. Krause, David. (edited by) The Dolmen Boucicault. With an essay by the Editor on the Theatre of Dion Boucicault and the complete authentic text of Boucicault's three Irish Plays, The Colleen Bawn, Arrah na Pogue and The Shaughran. Dublin. The Dolmen Press, 1964. First. pp.253. Pictorial D.J. glassine covered in pristine condition. €95.

798. J.K.L. (John Doyle - Kildare & Leighlin). A Vindication of the Religious and Civil Principles of the Irish Catholics in a letter addressed to his Excellency the Marquis ellessey. K.G. Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland. Dublin. Richard Coyne. 1823. pp.71 bound with A Defence by J.K.L. of his vindication of the Religious and Civil Principles of the Irish Catholics. Dublin. Richard Coyne. 1824. pp.120. bound with The Rev. Dr. Doyles reply to an "Appendix" to the charge delivered by Dr. Elrington, Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns. pp.12. published Manchester, Robinson. C.1824. Originally a letter to the editor of the Dublin Evening Post. This last item is quite scarce. Fine quarter calf, Marbled boards (recent). €375.

799. Lalor, Brian. West of West. An artists encounter with West Cork. Dingle, Brandon Book Pub. 1990. First. Illus. pp.154. Stiff pic. Wraps. V.G. €25.